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  2. Cache hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    Each upper-level cache component is a subset of the lower-level cache component. In this case, since there is a duplication of blocks, there is some wastage of memory. However, checking is faster. [citation needed] Under an exclusive policy, all the cache hierarchy components are completely exclusive, so that any element in the upper-level ...

  3. Cache-oblivious algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the RAM machine model, it also introduces a cache: the second level of storage between the RAM and the CPU. The other differences between the two models are listed below. In the cache-oblivious model: The cache on the left holds blocks of size each, for a total of M objects. The external memory on the right is unbounded.

  4. CPU cache - Wikipedia

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    A CPU cache is a hardware cache used by the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer to reduce the average cost (time or energy) to access data from the main memory. [1] A cache is a smaller, faster memory, located closer to a processor core, which stores copies of the data from frequently used main memory locations.

  5. Cache coherency protocols (examples) - Wikipedia

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    Cache in E (R) or M (D) state (exclusiveness) – The write can take place locally without any other action. The state is set (or remains) M (D) Write Miss – Write Allocate – Read with Intent to Modified operation – Like a Read miss operation plus an invalidate command, then the cache is written (updated)

  6. Memory hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    Level 2 (L2) Instruction and data (shared) – 1 MiB [citation needed] [original research] in size. Best access speed is around 200 GB/s [9] Level 3 (L3) Shared cache – 6 MiB [citation needed] [original research] in size. Best access speed is around 100 GB/s [9] Level 4 (L4) Shared cache – 128 MiB [citation needed] [original research] in size.

  7. Branch predictor - Wikipedia

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    A two-level adaptive predictor remembers the history of the last n occurrences of the branch and uses one saturating counter for each of the possible 2 n history patterns. This method is illustrated in figure 3. Consider the example of n = 2. This means that the last two occurrences of the branch are stored in a two-bit shift register.

  8. Cache replacement policies - Wikipedia

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    In computing, cache replacement policies (also known as cache replacement algorithms or cache algorithms) are optimizing instructions or algorithms which a computer program or hardware-maintained structure can utilize to manage a cache of information. Caching improves performance by keeping recent or often-used data items in memory locations ...

  9. Memory ordering - Wikipedia

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    Traditional compilers translate high-level expressions to a sequence of low-level instructions relative to a program counter at the underlying machine level. Execution effects are visible at two levels: within the program code at a high level, and at the machine level as viewed by other threads or processing elements in concurrent programming ...